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REGISTERED COMMON LODGING-HOUSES, 1900.
Name of Street.
No of Houses
Registered.
Deaths in
Infirmary and
elsewhere of
Lodgers.
Brick Lane, Nos. 19, 195, 27, 29, 635 and 74
6
10
Buckle Street, No. 22
I
—
Commercial Street, Nos. 39 and 41
2
16
Dorset Street, Nos. 9, 10, 11,12, 15, 16, 17, 19,
20, 20A, 28, 29, 30 and 35
14
40
Flower and Dean Street, Nos. 5, 56, 57 and 58
4
10
Garden Court, No. 1
1
—
George Yard, Nos. 27 and 29
2
—
Grace's Alley, No. 6
1
—
Great Garden Street, Nos. 16 and 18
2
6
Great Pearl Street, No. 15
1
—
Gun Street, Nos. 7 and 34
2
—
Hanbury Street, Nos. 40, 42, 44 and 46
4
—
Heneage Street, No. 1
1
17
Lambeth Street, No. 80
1
1
Leman Street, Nos. 66 and 86
2
2
Lolesworth Street, Nos. 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9
5
2
Old Montague Street, No. 73
1
—
Osborn Place, Nos. 1, 1A, 2, 3, 3A and 4
6
18
Paternoster Row, Nos. 3, 4 and 5
3
5
Princelet Street, No. 12
1
16
Queen Street, Mile End New Town, No. 1
1
—
Thrawl Street, Nos. 16, 17 and 28
3
8
Upper East Smithfield, Nos. 18 and 40
2
6
Wellclose Square, No. 17
1
—
Wentworth Street, No. 90
1
22
Whitechapel Road, Nos. 77 and 232
2
25
White's Row, Nos. 8, 28 and 29
3
7
Totals
73
211
The population as given in 1899 by the Medical Officer of Health to the
London County Council was 5,298.
The Deaths took place as follows:—
In the Whitechapel Infirmary 160
,, London Hospital 13
,, South Grove Workhouse 7
„ Ilford Asylum 3
,, Shadwell Hospital 2
,, Central London Sick Asylum 1
, Colney Hatch Asylum 1
,, Dartford Asylum 1
,, Islington Infirmary 1
,, St. George's Infirmary 1
At the several Lodging Houses 21
Total 211
It is significant as indicating the influence of these most useful dwellings,
that 75.8 per cent. of the lodgers who died had recourse to the Whitechapel
Union Infirmary to end their days.